[OSM-talk-be] OSM promo

Glenn Plas glenn at byte-consult.be
Tue Feb 26 15:29:46 UTC 2013


> No, the server does not know that the file is part of a HTML page.
You do have a point there...

> What happens is that if the broser is decoding an <image ...> tag or a 
> tag that contains a mime type, it knows that it's an image or the 
> specified mime type overrides that of the HTTP header.
>> It's due to the fact that we're downloading it from SVN http.  I 
>> don't expect SVN to build me an html page.

Let me rephrase that:  In a 'normal' webserver setup which doesn't act 
as a frontend to SVN this mimetype would be set correctly.   I think 
it's because of the SVN integration.

> I would be very unhappy if the persons I'm showing images that way had 
> to store the files to view them.
> They probably would not look at them.
> It should be reported as a problem.

You're correct here though, it is a problem indeed thinking about your 
comments more thoroughly, you're right that this header is wrong.




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